Like mercenary groups, you get contracts from government and private organizations for specific studies. You are on a site that requires a special short term, hands on approach a large very expensive research facility isn't suited for. This, of course, leads to the more unusual encounters and danger...

Engineering/pinnace docking section in the center location. The ring is a hamster cage. As a very harmless research vessel, give a light hull unless you need to mount laser drills. Solar panels for extended stays in a location. Multi-environment space for specimens along with life scanners. Library ...

How to convert? You now have FTL subspace communication. Works for Star Trek and Star Wars. Can anyone use it or is it the plaything of governments and corporations? You now have Transfer Booths. Just need to work out the science and economics of a cache of clone bodies at the destination. I don't k...

If a Duke was developing that much popularity, it would not happen overnight considering the speed of communication. There would be time for the Emperor's massive political machine to counter it if analysis deemed it a threat to the Imperial power. As we have seen in the OTU timeline though, civil w...

I think the word 'regrow' is being misunderstood. The passage didn't say his limb was missing. He needs to replace a lot of tissue damage since he only took a mere 2 points of Strength. Read the Medical Treatment section on page 78 for extensive damage and even then there's no reference to limb repl...

"If the Ringworld was sectioned off on its inner side, there could be any number of different environments as well." One of the Man-Kzin Wars books had a zoo world featuring huge sectioned off environments based on many sampled worlds one of which was the Kzinti homeworld. A human whose ship had cra...

So they have the ability to extinguish stars without causing an immediate gravitational collapse creating a singularity?! Also they can manipulate the orbital physics of the other star(s) so the loss of the delicate gravitational balance doesn't send the stars winging off into the void? That's scien...

How many surrounding star systems would you have to strip out to create a ringworld let alone a dyson sphere? Why would any race with the ability to decimate entire systems create a single structure to contain a million planet habitat instead of just terraforming a million worlds? This sounds like a...

Remember the Toonces Effect, you can still use a skill you have no levels in just not very well. There's a penalty but it's not like you can't perform a task. The kid could still operate a turret. You might not want someone performing surgery when they don't know what a laser scalpel is.

Looking at careers, I don't see subsidized vessels as a mustering benefit and for good reason. Mustering ships are small and *relatively* inexpensive. Mercenary cruisers, patrol corvettes and corporate level ships are very expensive to the point a party of 4-6 couldn't possibly bring in enough reven...

Remember again the Traveller system does not use huge numbers for task modifiers compared to most other games. The mechanics are favorable to success even when you have only one or two points in a characteristic or skill. You have a good grasp of a subject with 1 point, you're well trained with 2 po...

People under 18 generate Characteristics and Background skills and that's it. At 18 someone can attend college or military academy for 4 years gaining a few more skills then begin adventuring. Yes, they have very little that early in life.

"I know that ships like the Corsair have a "type" but they're so idiotic as a concept that I'm not getting into it." The corsair is quite legit. It started as the ship reward for the pirate career but had no origin. As time and editions went by, we realize there's a broader sense to the class as a c...

"But, as we've seen from most supplements (canon and otherwise) and the core rule books of the various editions, fleshing out a system, or even a single planet, to provide more details is almost never done." I have most editions and each have their own starport rules, some actually overlap. I borrow...

If only for OTU, every empire except the vargr, for obvious reasons, has a centralized primary interstellar trade network within their borders. The game system is designed for this. Independent and neutral systems need a bit of imaginative thinking as to why they have the 'starport' they do. The loc...

Looking over the gnoll write up, they would be the stuff of nightmares for vargr and other races. They would make an excellent horror antagonist. They are strong and tough but their claim to fame is how vicious they are while being intelligent. They could be a native species on a world with a partic...